Strategic Data Analyst
| Posting date: | 20 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £33,590 to £36,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 June 2025 |
| Location: | Nottingham |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 409521/9 |
Summary
Our organisation is growing and we’re at the heart of delivering the Government’s agricultural transition and making a genuine difference to the health of our environment and rural economy. We continue to make year on year improvements in performance as we become a data and intelligence-led organisation, embedding our vision of customer excellence at every level and growing our reputation to make a difference every day.
Our Data, Insight & Outcomes Business Area is a multidisciplinary team including Geospatial Analysts, Data Engineers and Architects, Data and Intelligence Analysts and a national Field Team. Together, we’re in a unique position to use our specialist skills to work with the agricultural community to deliver big, impactful change, supporting high level environmental and animal welfare outcomes and the move towards net zero. This is an exciting time to join our team as we grow and develop our ability to continuously analyse nationwide agricultural activity and provide agile, directed data and evidence-driven support to the farming community.
Further information can be found on the Rural Payments Agency website www.rpa.gov.uk.
This is a good opportunity to join a fast paced and developing data and analysis team.
We have the following 2 roles available:
Budget Forecasting Analyst
This role requires an understanding of data analysis, financial modelling, and forecasting techniques. The successful candidate will play a critical role in forecasting spend, analysing financial data, and providing actionable insights to support strategic decision making.
Key responsibilities include:
- Developing and maintain spend forecasting models to support both in-year and future years financial planning and budget processes.
- Analysis of historical data to identify trends and patterns to develop assumptions.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to gather non-data based assumptions and insights
- Collaborating with Finance and Operations colleagues to ensure a broader understanding of forecast assumptions and methodologies.
- Presenting findings and recommendations to budget holders.
- Monitoring and report actual spend against forecasts making adjustment where necessary in the case of forecast deviation.
Fraud and Error Analyst
This role requires advanced analytical skills, a keen eye for detail, and a deep understanding of fraud and error detection and prevention techniques. The successful candidate will play a critical role in analysing data to identify, measure, and report error that exists within subsidy scheme expenditure.
Key responsibilities include:
- Supporting the production of the yearly formal measure of error in accounts for inclusion within the published annual accounts.
- Development and maintenance of analytical pipelines to ensure efficient error reporting and analysis.
- Maintenance of documented methodologies and provide advice on sampling methodologies.
- Analysis of data to identify patterns, anomalies and potential areas most at risk of error that will inform preventative activities to reduce future error.
- Providing detailed reports and presentations on findings.
- Collaborating with internal teams and National Audit Office on error findings, results and methodologies.
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